Routines, procedures, methods - whatever you call them, they are important building blocks for us developers. What single characteristic would you rate as the most important one? (By providing one characteristic per answer, it is possible to vote for them individually. I.e. the purpose of this question is not to decide single out one ch...
how does linux 2.6 differ from 2.4? can we modify the source kernel ? can we modify the int 0x80 service routine? ...
Code Complete (Chapter 7, Section 3) says that a good function should be named for the value it returns and a good procedure name in a class should be named for what it does. When I write synchronized methods in Delphi (pre 2009) I sometimes need to use them to set global variables, a seemingly bad programming practice, but a necessar...
My program has a daily routine, similar to an alarm clock event. Say, when it's 2pm(The time is the system time in my pc), do something for me. What I want to do is to speed up the testing period(I don't really want to wait 4 days looking at the daily routine and check errors.) I read on wiki of Mock object, the writer DID mention alar...
I have been given access to a SQL Server database that is currently used by 3rd party app. As such, I don't have any documentation on how that application stores the data or how it retrieves it. I can figure a few things out based on the names of various tables and the parameters that the user-defined functions takes and returns, but I...
I am interested in creating a routine that would query the currently running cache processes and then write this information to a file. How could this be done in Cache 2008.2? ...
Hi, From phpMyAdmin, I was exporting the functions/procedures used by the user assigned to a particular database and 3 functions didnt get exported because they were created by the 'superadmin'. I was able to see these functions within localhost > database_name -> Structure -> Routines BUT, I was not able to modify their structure o...
In regards to C what is a stub routine? Also an example would be much appreciated as well. ...